Five For Friday with a Confession!

Here is my five for Friday!

1. I have been back at creating teaching stuff!  Back in August I made raffle tickets to use as part of my reward system.  I decided to post them to my TPT store as a FREEBIE.  Grab them here!

2. I created a new sight word game to use with my kindergarten groups!  I know they will love it!  It is available at my TPT store!  Click here!

3. Read Across America is coming up!  My school is having students participate in activities each day.  I was asked to created a poster to hang up in the hallways!  This is what I came up with!  What will your school be doing?

4. I have started a new hobby!  My sister-in-law gave me a beading set for Christmas and I. AM. ADDICTED!  This week I had some time to make yet another jewelry set! 

5. Confession Time!  I have been watching my diet for about seven months now (with the exception of a couple of weeks at Christmas.  I picked up a bag of M&M's last weekend...and they are gone.  I went to the store today for another bag...and ended up with two bags since they only cost $1.20 each for 12.6 oz bag!!  

Thanks for checking out my Five For Friday!

Green! Green! Green!

I have been seeing so much green this week!  I wish it was green money...but instead it is St. Patrick's Day fun!  We have been doing activities from my St. Patrick's Day unit and it has been a blast!  You can find the unit by clicking here!  You can also view my previous post that shows some of what is included in the unit.

Here are some pictures of other things we have been doing.  We made a bulletin board telling why we are lucky!  My students came up with such cute reasons!

I have family.

My mommy got a new dog.

I have a older brother.

We also painted rainbows!  Students then had to find a picture in a magazine of something silly that their leprechaun found at the end of the rainbow.  They placed a leprechaun picture on one side of the rainbow and their magazine picture on the other side.  Students wrote about what their leprechaun found.  They shared their writing with the class and of course everyone thought it was hilarious!

The leprechaun found cereal at the end of the rainbow.

The leprechaun found mashed potatoes at the end of the rainbow.

The leprechaun found a fork at the end of the rainbow.

The leprechaun found a lotion at the end of the rainbow.

Also, if you haven't seen the Leprechaun Song on Youtube by Harry Kindergarten, check it out!  We have been using it this week to review counting!  It has such a catchy tune and I love the way it displays the numbers and the quantity too!

Only one more day until Spring Break!!!  

St. Patrick's Day Is Coming!

St. Patrick's Day was never that big of a deal to me until 2009!  March 17th, 2009 I gave birth to my 10  lb 6 oz baby boy!    Now each year I look forward to this special day!  I have made a fun unit to help my kinders learn and try to maintain their fading attention span as spring break approaches...and I have even included a freebie!  Here are some of the activities included in the unit:

Rainbow Rhyming: Working on rhyming words!  This activity also includes a recording sheet that has students sounding out the CVC words!

Follow the Rainbow Addition: Works on basic addition with sums 0 to 5.  Students match the pot of gold to the rainbow.  This activity also includes a cut and paste worksheet.

Solid Gold Syllables: Students sort 1, 2 and 3 syllable words

Click on the picture above to get the pack that includes 8 activities! 

Now for the freebie!

 

The freebie includes black and white coins to copy on yellow paper or colored coins ready to use!  It also has three recording sheets to help differentiate the activity!  This is one of the recording sheets!

 

To find more St. Patrick's Day Activities head over to Sharing Kindergarten for the St. Patrick's Day Linky Party!